Dominic Fopoli

I think you would have killed me.

It's the only way that you can visit.

Sure.

Get to have some wine.

So cheers.

Me and my brother and two sisters, we're the fourth generation in our family to be involved.

I mean, our great-grandfather started doing this with grapes and making some wine in the early 1900s.

Oh, yeah, big time.

Tech tycoons, Wall Street guys, rock stars, movie people, and they all want to come and have a slice of this.

And a lot of people see the glamorous side of it without seeing the hard work that goes into it, the blood, sweat, and tears that it really takes to get to the point where we're at right now of drinking a great bottle.

It's very, very tough unless you're coming with a lot of money.

You know, their word is their bond.

You shake their hands, you look in their eye, and you're good.

Absolutely.

That's a huge, huge part of it.

So, because you need to know that you can trust that person.

Every day.

I had met some people from Asia who were looking into getting into importing California wine.

I couldn't literally package wine fast enough because I didn't have my own facility.

And so I met Robert.